Abstract

Ash dieback is a devastating fungal disease of ash trees that has swept across Europe
and recently reached the UK. This emergent pathogen has received little study in the
past and its effect threatens to overwhelm the ash population. In response to this
we have produced some initial genomics datasets and taken the unusual step of releasing
them to the scientific community for analysis without first performing our own. In
this manner we hope to ‘crowdsource’ analyses and bring the expertise of the community
to bear on this problem as quickly as possible. Our data has been released through
our website at oadb.tsl.ac.uk and a public GitHub repository.